D Dorian Bebop on Guitar

D Dorian Bebop runs 8 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's E–A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every D marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

Dorian with a chromatic passing tone slipped between the b3 and the 4 — eight notes, so chord tones keep landing on the strong beats in a run of eighth notes. Cool, flowing, and swinging.

Heard in: Bebop and straight-ahead jazz lines over minor seventh chords — Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and the Barry Harris approach.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in D major or minor and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.